Is it the interior lighting or the shadows cast by a full moon that animate these aircraft ruins, making them seem haunted by former crew and passengers? Since the 1990s, commercial artist Troy Paiva has been chasing ghosts with his camera in the twilight zones of abandoned towns, crumbling urban neighborhoods, and aircraft boneyards. For most of these shots he visited Aviation Warehouse, a scrap and salvage operation in California's Mojave Desert, during full-moon nights in 2006 and 2007.
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